Some Things Just Take Time

Japan does not cut down centuries-old trees for development. Instead, experts spend months preparing their roots and relocating them

When roads, railways or new buildings are planned, centuries-old trees are often among the first casualties of development. In Japan, however, some of the country's most valuable trees are given a second chance.

In the Year of a Tree

Snapshots throughout the seasons.

We should be more tired than the model

Adding deliberate friction back into development

Forestwalk Labs

Making delightful tools for teams.

Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential

In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings, two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down. The problem is that Treebeard operates at a very different speed than the Hobbits. It takes him a full day simply to say hello to another tree, so getting him and his peers to act fast enough is nearly impossible.

Crown shyness: are trees social distancing too? | Natural History Museum

If you look up in some forests, you might notice conspicuous gaps between the trees' branches. © Pongpawan Sethanant/ Shutterstock

We argue badly, and nothing accumulates. How could we do better? | Reason Commons — Issue Trees & Logical Thinking Process

Millions of people argue every day about the things that matter most — climate change, what to do about AI, how we might build a better world. Some of it is sharp, even insightful. And almost none of it accumulates.

Nate on Twitter / X

OSTP just released 'Science: A New Golden Age' — 72 pages modeled on Vannevar Bush's 1945 report. I read the whole thing. It's remarkably good.The sharpest insight is on page 60. AI could do to science what fire suppression did to forests: make each individual tree safer while…— Nate (@NateWBradford) July 21, 2026

Trees for Cities | Trees for Cities

We are the only charity working at a national scale to improve lives by creating greener cities.

Markus J. Buehler on Twitter / X

After decades at MIT studying how nature builds - from spider silk to bone to nacre - I've become convinced of something: the biggest barrier to scientific progress isn't knowledge, it's connection. The insights we need already exist, scattered across millions of papers and… pic.twitter.com/EHUomaFyPj— Markus J. Buehler (@ProfBuehlerMIT) March 10, 2026

Could AI slow science?

Confronting the production-progress paradox

How we do trunk-based development (and why you should too) - PostHog

What do trees, elephants, and successful software all have in common? They rely on their trunks to help them grow big and strong. In the case of…

Because coordination is expensive

If you’ve ever worked at a larger organization, stop me if you’ve heard (or asked!) any of these questions: “Why do we move so slowly as an organization? We need to figure out how…

Climate Change is coming for Christmas

Stunted trees, pricey chocolate, threatened reindeer, scant snow—warming is taking a toll.